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<\/a>We stayed a bit to watch the council meeting but around 6:30, we had to leave to pick up McCanless from dance.\u00a0 (She opted not to attend Daddy’s special meeting.\u00a0 Dance is far more important to her right now.)\u00a0 I took her back to City Hall to see Daddy in his new role, but executive session had begun behind closed doors so this was all she was able to see.\u00a0 By this time, McCanless and Mary Clare had had their fill of City Hall and politics and were like little ants all over the building, climbing on chairs, dancing in the halls and running around barefoot.\u00a0 This was Daddy’s first night on the job, and in the interst of his reputation as a father,\u00a0 we decided not to wait on\u00a0 him and headed out to eat with Mimi and Nonnie.\u00a0 (We’ll break them in slowly.)\u00a0 The girls were dancing and singing as loudly as they could down the steps of City Hall.\u00a0 Ready or not, Hartsville, here we come!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of 6:00 pm Tuesday, November 10, Mel is Mayor of Hartsville, South Carolina. Mary Clare felt it necessary to “help” me as Mel took his Oath of Office.\u00a0 She jumped up from her seat with Mimi, and came running to me with shoes off, paci in one hand and blue sucker in the other.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Mary Clare felt it necessary to “help” me as Mel took his Oath of Office.\u00a0 She jumped up from her seat with Mimi, and came running to me with shoes off, paci in one hand and blue sucker in the other.\u00a0 I couldn’t really stop the oath by handing over the Bible and picking her up, so I just watched her grab onto my legs and try to get my attention.\u00a0 She kept saying, “Hey Mamma” until I had to look down and acknowledge her by saying, “Hello, Mary Clare.”\u00a0 She stood up front with us until it was official and Daddy became Mayor.<\/p>\n